Speaker

Gesche Weger

CEO and Co-founder, Packwise GmbH

Gesche Weger is a dynamic entrepreneur and economist with a diverse professional background spanning over a decade. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Packwise GmbH, a company she established in January 2017, based in the Dresden area, Germany. Under her leadership, Packwise has grown into a prominent player in its industry over the past seven years.

Before founding Packwise, Weger worked as a freelance business consultant in Cheshire, England, from 2014 to 2015. Prior to that, she gained significant experience at UBS in Zurich, Switzerland, where she held various roles as an economist from 2010 to 2013. Her work at UBS included positions in market risk project management and thematic research.

Weger's career began with internships and research positions at prestigious institutions such as Munich Re, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and the Freie Universität Berlin. She also gained early experience as an intern at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., in 2007.

Company

Packwise GmbH

Packwise GmbH is a Dresden-based technology company whose innovative Industrial IoT solution enables customers in the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries to gain transparency along the supply chain. Our solution, consisting of the plug-and-play sensor Packwise Smart Cap and the corresponding application Packwise Flow, enables unprecedented insights into relevant data surrounding the supply chain. Sensor data on location, fill level and movement for various types of containers is collected with high precision in real time and visualized and analyzed fully automatically and intelligently in Packwise Flow, as well as optionally transferred to customer systems. Packwise' customers therefore benefit from automated processes, increased service levels for their customers and partners, and more sustainable container logistics. Since 2017, the trio of founders and their team of around 20 have been working ceaselessly on this technology to transform their customers' supply chains into an intelligent, digital, collaborative network. Today, Packwise is already working with over 40 companies from the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries worldwide.